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Re: errors during recent dist-upgrades



On Wed, 10 Nov 1999, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:

> APT does not do what?  You aren't making much sense to me.

It doesn't guarentee that dpkg gets all members of the depends loop at
once.

> Assuming both are unpacked, a simple dpkg --configure -a will configure
> both.  Or a simple dpkg --configure wordnet wordnet-base.  Neither is

APT does not use --configure -a, it interferes with things like the CD
swap, immediate configure, and so on.

> a long command line.  And I believe depend loops are seldom longer than
> a couple packages.

But APT batches a large number of configure requests all at once, so what
has happened is that a split between the runs of dpkg occures between the
two wordnet packages.
 
> I don't see any bug reports against wordnet.  What kind of bugs are you
> talking about?

Look again, I just filed one

Jason


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